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The US social media machine will never be ‘fixed’ because it is not broken. Those demanding we put the fake news genie back in the bottle are the ones who let it out to begin with. Photo: The U.S. Department…
The term was originally used to describe pirates’ wielding of friendly (and false) flags to lure merchant ships close enough to attack. Nothing has changed, really. Illustration: (US State Dept. Gregory) 18 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media…
If you thought media had stopped reporting ‘news’ and will now instead ‘nudge’ viewers to change their lifestyles, you were not wrong. Photo: screenshot: The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles 09 November 2021 | BRENDAN O’NEILL…
The Zuck did not invent it. Nor has anyone offered proof that it isn’t just another way to ‘amuse ourselves to death.’ For a price. So what is it? 20 October 2021 | Kristie Pladson | DW Facebook has announced…
‘It’s so far out of hand now that I can promise you that no one is safe. Not one of you. No one out that door. No one is safe.’ Photo: AP 22 September 2021 | Tom Grater | Dateline…
LAPD issued ‘field interview cards’ to record a civilian’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media accounts. Photo: Police detain people during the George Floyd protests in Los Angeles on 1 June 2020. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock 08 September 2021 | Sam Levin…
Photo: Shutterstock/GaudiLab It looks so easy, this working hard at hardly working influencer thing. But failure to follow the rules could mean the difference between millions of dollars and no genuine influence at all. 02 August 2021 | Rebecca Mardon,…
Photo: Harry Kane (centre) and Raheem Sterling (front) have been two of the main targets for abuse. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters 27 June 2021 | Caelainn Barr, Paul MacInnes, Niamh McIntyre and Pamela Duncan | The Guardian England’s footballers have been subjected to sustained abuse online…
24 June 2021 | WINSTON MARSHALL | Newsweek I loved those first tours. Bouncing off a sweaty stage in an Edinburgh catacomb we then had to get to a gig in Camden by lunch the next day. We couldn’t fit…
Photo: The Tik Tok app is one of the most popular apps in the world, and is dominated by Generation Z users. JUSTIN SULLIVAN, GETTY IMAGES File this tidbit of GenZee Jargon in your own personal deep dark mental archive of…
Photo: Emily Wilder, a 2020 graduate of Stanford University, was fired from her Associated Press job over past social media posts related to Israel.Angel Mendoza Emily Wilder was fired from her job at AP after conservatives resurfaced old social media…
This story was published by a ‘reputable news source’ (CNN) but relies on ‘a source familiar with the effort.’ As such, it is provided here for informational purposes and is in no way intended to confirm or support any of…
